Lectures
Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Center’s Assistant Director, Meg Keenan via email or at 504.862.3236.
Past Lectures
Campbell Grey
“Urban Poverty, Charity and Conversion in Late Antique Asia Minor”
Robert Hanna
“Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World”
Mary Nichols
“Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus: Public or Private?”
Murdo J. MacLeod
“The Uses and Abuses of Corruption: Some Aspects of Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial Central America”
TERRORISM AND MODERNITY
Alexander Demandt on “Terrorism — A Timeless Topic” and David Rapoport on “The Distinctive Features of Modern Terrorism from the 1880s to the 2020s(?)”
Eric Van Young
“Was Mexico’s Greatest 19th-Century Conservative a Trimmer?: Lucas Alamán and the Law”
James Blair
“Emotional Outcomes, Moral Decision Making and Psychopathy”
Steven Kuhn
“Morality, Social Pressure, and Advocacy Games”
Simone Bateman
“Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Scientific Inquiry and Ethical Controversy”
Samuel R. Freeman
Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification
W. Kip Viscusi
“What’s a Life Worth?”
Sharon Lloyd
The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: An Investigation
Malachi Hacohen
The Rise and Fall of the Central European Jewish Intelligentsia, 1781-1968: Jacob and Esau and the Dilemmas of the European Nation State
James E. Young
Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial
Dennis Thompson
Can the University Teach Ethics?
Kenneth Schaffner
Genes, Behavior, and Ethics: Current Issues
Robert Solomon
“Existentialism, Spirituality, Sentimentality”
James S. Taylor
“Autonomy, Paternalism and Organ Sales”
Randall McGowen
“Understanding the Gallows in Eighteenth Century London”
Joshua D. Margolis
“Necessary Evils: The Problem of Dirty Hands Made Real”
Thomas Sheehan
“Heidegger, Ethics, and Politics.”
Ann E. Tenbrunsel
“The Organization Made Me Do It: Situational Influences on Unethical Behavior”
Thomas Fisher
“Architecture’s Paradox of Value: Buildings, Ethics, and the Ecology of Wealth”
Gary Pavela
“Can Ethics Be Taught?”